WK 1 8/23     INTRODUCTION TO THE COURSE

•    VIDEO: The Unwanted, 1975 (50 min)
•    Arizona Republic, Special Report: Dying to Work.  August 25, 2001 (read it!)

         We will spend part of today’s class in a computer lab.

• Saskia Sassen, "Why Migration?" Report on the Americas 25(1)1992: 14-19
• Nina Schiller, et al, "Transnationalism: A New Analytic Framework for Understanding Migration," in Towards a Transnational Perspective on Migration: Race, Class, Ethnicity, and Nationalism Reconsidered.  Ed. Schiller et al. New York: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1992: 1-24.
• Caroline B. Brettell, "Theorizing Migration in Anthropology" in Migration Theory: Talking Across Disciplines, ed. Brettell & James F. Hollifield.  Routledge, 2000: 97-135
• Amitava Kumar, "Language."  From his Passport Photos, U Calif P 2000: 16-34
• DUE: Family Migration Map—make a map/chart/drawing/collage/poem/etc to show the patterns of your own family’s migration routes

• Cathy Small, Voyages: From Tongan Villages to American Suburbs. (first half)
• Frances Moore Lappe and Joseph Collins, "Why Can't People Feed Themselves?" From Food First: Beyond the Myth of Scarcity, Institute for Food & Development 1977, reprinted in Annual Editions in Anthropology 99/00, Dushkin Pub Group
• VIDEO:  clips from Men in Black and The Arrival

•    Cathy Small, Voyages: From Tongan Villages to American Suburbs. (finish)
•    Robert Smith, "Mixteca in NY; NY in Mixteca," Report on the Americas 26(1)1992:39-41
•    Sarah Mahler, "First Stop: Suburbia," Report on the Americas 26(1)1992:20-24
•    VIDEO: Invisible Indians: Mixtec Farmworkers in California, 1993 (40 min)

•    Jo Ann Koltyk, New Pioneers in the Heartland: Hmong Life in Wisconsin. (all)
•    Marc Cooper, "The Heartland’s Raw Deal: How Meatpacking is Creating a New Immigrant Underclass," The Nation Feb 3, 1997: 11-17
•    Stephen Castles & Mark J Miller, selections from "Migrations in the period of global economic restructuring," in their The Age of Migration, MacMillan 1998, pp 78-79, 84-91, 160-161
•    Susan Forbes Martin, from her Refugee Women, Zed Books 1992: 1-6, 16-31
•    Liisa H. Malkki, "National Geographic: the Rooting of Peoples and Territorialization of National Identity Among Scholars and Refugees," in Culture, Power, Place: Explorations in Critical Anthropology.  Eds. Akhil Gupta & James Ferguson, Duke UP, 1997:52-74
•    Web: "Refugees & Migration" http://www.oneworld.org/guides/migration/index.html
•    Web: "Evolution of the Term ‘Refugee’" http://www.refugees.org/news/fact_sheets/refugee_definition.htm
•    VIDEO: Bui doi: Life Like Dust, 1995 (28 min)

•    Leo R. Chavez--Shadowed Lives: Undocumented Immigrants in American Society (all)
•    Néstor Rodrîguez, "The Real ‘New World Order’: The Globalization of Racial & Ethnic Relations in the Late Twentieth Century," in The Bubbling Cauldron: Race, Ethnicity, & the Urban Crisis, ed. Michael Peter Smith & Joe R. Feagin, U Minn P, 1995: 211-225
•    Web: "A Mexican Town that Transcends All Borders," NY Times July 21, 1998 http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/regional/072198immigration.html
•    Web: "Illegal Alien Resident Population," http://www.ins.usdoj.gov/graphics/aboutins/statistics/illegalalien/index.htm
•    VIDEO: Uneasy Neighbors, 1989 (35 min)

•    DUE:Short Essay (3-5 pp. based on readings.  See instruction sheet)

•    Carpool to Tucson: meet at 7:00 am in parking lot south of library;
•    We will return around 8 pm
•    BorderLinks Reading Packet—read these articles to prepare for trip
•     Everyone will chip in for gas

•    Leo R. Chavez, "Manufacturing Consensus on an Anti-Mexican Immigration Discourse," from his Covering Immigration: Popular Images and the Politics of the Nation.  U Cal P, 2001: 215-262
•    VIDEO:Go Back to Mexico, 1994 (57 min)

•    DUE: Report on BorderLinks Fieldtrip (1-2 pp) Write about one or two key aspects that impressed you most about the trip, particularly in light of our course focus on migration, and explain why.

WK 9 10/18     GENDERED DISLOCATIONS AND MIGRATIONS

•    Parreñas—Servants of Globalization, intro and chaps 1-3 (pp. 1-79)
•    Luin Goldring, "Blurring Borders: Constructing Transnational Community in the Process of Mexico-U.S. Migration,"  Research in Community Sociology, v. 6(1996):69-104
•    B. Lindsay Lowell, Rodolfo de la Garza, Mike Hogg, "Remittances, U.S. Latino Communities, and Development in Latin American Countries,"  Migrationworld 28(5)2000:13-17
•   VIDEO: Modern Heroes, Modern Slaves, 1997 (45 min)

•    Parreñas—Servants of Globalization, chap 7 & conclusion (pp. 197-254)
•    Charles S. Clark, "The New Immigrants,"  Congressional Quarterly Researcher Jan 24, 1997:49-72 (reprint in Annual Editions: Race & Ethnic Relations 2000)
•    Stephen Castles & Mark J. Miller, "New Ethnic Minorities and Society," in The Age of Migration: International Population Movements in the Modern World.  Macmillan Press 1998 (second edition), 212-252
•  VIDEO:  New Faces on Main Street, 1998 (60 min)

WK 11 11/1     AFRICANS IN AMERICA, NEW MIGRANTS AND OLD

•    Paul Stoller, Jaguar: A Story of Africans in America (all)
•    Selection on the Great Migration
•    VIDEO:  Up South, 1996 (28 min), Displaced in the New South (1995) (57 min)

•   Guest visitor: Attorney Milagros Cisñeros
•   David Masci, "Debate Over Immigration," Congressional Quarterly July 14, 2000: 571-580 (reprint in Annual Editions: Race & Ethnic Relations 2000)
•   Korematsu v US (1944)—court case
•   Peter Kwong, "Intro" to Forbidden Workers: Illegal Chinese Immigrants & American Labor. NY: The New Press, 1997, 1-17
•   Kristin Koptiuch, "‘Cultural Defense’ and Criminological Displacements: Gender, Race, and (Trans)Nation in the Legal Surveillance of US Diaspora Asians," in Displacement, Diaspora, and Geographies of Identity.  Ed. Smadar Lavie & Ted Swedenburg.  Duke Univ Press 1996, 215-233
•   Robert S. Kahn, "Florence Prison," in Other People’s Blood: U.S. Immigration Prisons in the Reagan Decade. Westview Press, 1996:133-147
•   VIDEO:  Dateline clip, Tom Brokaw 8/3/01
•   With Liberty & Justice For All (32 min); In the Shadow of the Law (58 min)

•  Brief presentation of your case study
•  Report can be based on any kind of fieldwork observations, such as: immigrant interview, visit to immigrant services or site (e.g. day labor site; residence; law offices/courts; immigrant photo place; safe house/shelter; business catering to immigrants; festival; etc).  Observe, talk with people, try to find any supporting literature/web sites/brochures/etc to establish a context for your case study, and ground your discussion in our study of migration concepts, patterns, processes (yes—references to course readings ARE appropriate, to help shape your analysis

•    George Lipsitz, "Immigration and Assimilation: Rai, Reggae, and Bhangramuffin," in Dangerous Crossroads: Popular Music, Postmodernism, and the Poetics of Place.  Verso 1994: 119-134
•    Susan A. Phillips, "El Nuevo Mundo: The Landscape of Latino Los Angeles. Photographs by Camilo Jose Vergara," American Anthropologist 103(1)2001:175-188
•    Stuart Hall, "Minimal Selves," Identity Documents 6(1987: 44-46
•    VIDEO: Immigration: Promise & Hope for Generations, 1997 (30 min)

WK 14 11/22     THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY

WK 15 11/29     NO CLASS—DR. K. AT CONFERENCE

WK 16  12/6 FINAL CLASS: POSTER SESSION & PORTFOLIO PROJECTS

• DUE: CURRENT EVENTS POSTER/MAGAZINE COVER to display in class
• * Accompanied by a one-page explanation
• * Consider making your poster/magazine cover accompany your case study topic
• * See Chavez article from WK 8 for ideas—but use your critical perspective on migration

• DUE: FINAL PORTFOLIO PROJECT
• * Include in portfolio all assignments you did for this course.
• * Plus a Wrap-Up Essay (2-4 pp), reflecting on all your projects, key migration  issues of concern and interest to you, what you learned in this course, etc.
• * Write your essay as an imagined conversation between an INS officer and an un/documented immigrant?? (see article by Kumar WK 2 for ideas)
• * NOTE: you may revise earlier assignments to enhance your grade; let me know changes